The BRCT domain is found predominantly in proteins involved in cell cycle checkpoint functions responsive to DNA damage. The BRCT domain of XRCC1 forms a homodimer in the crystal structure. This suggests that pairs of BRCT domains associate as homo- ...
The BRCT domain is found predominantly in proteins involved in cell cycle checkpoint functions responsive to DNA damage. The BRCT domain of XRCC1 forms a homodimer in the crystal structure. This suggests that pairs of BRCT domains associate as homo- or heterodimers. BRCT domains are often found as tandem-repeat pairs [2]. Structures of the BRCA1 BRCT domains revealed a basis for a widely utilised head-to-tail BRCT-BRCT oligomerisation mode [3]. This conserved tandem BRCT architecture facilitates formation of the canonical BRCT phospho-peptide interaction cleft at a groove between the BRCT domains. Disease associated missense and nonsense mutations in the BRCA1 BRCT domains disrupt peptide binding by directly occluding this peptide binding groove, or by disrupting key conserved BRCT core folding determinants [5].
DNA ligases catalyse the crucial step of joining the breaks in duplex DNA during DNA replication, repair and recombination, utilising either ATP or NAD(+) as a cofactor [1]. This family is a small domain found after the adenylation domain Pfam:PF0165 ...
DNA ligases catalyse the crucial step of joining the breaks in duplex DNA during DNA replication, repair and recombination, utilising either ATP or NAD(+) as a cofactor [1]. This family is a small domain found after the adenylation domain Pfam:PF01653 in NAD dependent ligases [1]. OB-fold domains generally are involved in nucleic acid binding.
DNA ligases catalyse the crucial step of joining the breaks in duplex DNA during DNA replication, repair and recombination, utilising either ATP or NAD(+) as a cofactor [1]. This domain is the catalytic adenylation domain. The NAD+ group is covalent ...
DNA ligases catalyse the crucial step of joining the breaks in duplex DNA during DNA replication, repair and recombination, utilising either ATP or NAD(+) as a cofactor [1]. This domain is the catalytic adenylation domain. The NAD+ group is covalently attached to this domain at the lysine in the KXDG motif of this domain. This enzyme- adenylate intermediate is an important feature of the proposed catalytic mechanism [1].
